Monday 24 September 2018

Describing people and things

How important it is to describe artfully.   It can get you out of a number of situations.  When you can't remember a word in English just use your adjectives to make the other person understand more clearly about what you are trying to say.



Some examples of descriptions:

"She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements.

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"Black-haired and slender, wearing the huge new dust-filtering glasses, she approached his car, her hands deep in the pockets of her brightly striped long coat. She had, on her sharply defined small face, an expression of sullen distaste."
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Anthony was a sixty-four year old man of medium height, with abundant grey crinkly hair.    Today he was wearing a red cashmere polo-neck sweater under a jacket of soft brown tweed.

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"If the motorcycle was huge, it was nothing to the man sitting astride it. He was twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild — long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of trash can lids, and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins."
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"He was a funny-looking child who became a funny-looking youth — tall and weak, and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola."